Overview

• A Tallahassee judge ordered life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of Florida State law professor Daniel Markel.
• Two additional 30-year terms for conspiracy and solicitation were imposed consecutive to the life sentence after a weekslong trial that ended in a guilty verdict last month.
• In a courtroom statement, Adelson insisted she is innocent, called the verdict a miscarriage of justice, and said she will appeal.
• Judge Stephen Everett said the evidence was clear and warned that her remarks showed an utter lack of remorse.
• Other participants are already imprisoned, including her son Charles Adelson, Katherine Magbanua, and hitmen Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera; she was previously arrested at Miami International Airport while attempting a one-way flight to Vietnam after a recorded jail call surfaced.